I remember as a teenager viewing an unremarkable fragment of Roman floor mosaic in a museum.
Due to its diminished size, its position as domestic art (made for feet), its basic design- it was not significant. But it remained, and it contained everything meaningful.
Later, working in an auction house, I handled many old, small, and undeniably powerful household things. All of them were made by unnamed, often brutally marginalized people.
As a child, I observed that I was not enough. Making, for me, is an act of resistance. I work quickly. I puncture, stretch, deface, add to, move on from. I describe the ambivalence within my body.
Within the confines of who I have been told I am, I find I am more than that. If I am, so we all are. And that is what I work to communicate in these pieces.
Bio
I was born in 1983 in Chestertown, MD. In 2012 I received a Post-Bacc in Fine Arts from Brandeis University. I graduated from Yale University with a BA in Classics. I have exhibited my work in group and solo shows in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center.
I am the founder and curator of The Tender, a non commercial artspace viewable day and night in West Concord, MA. I live and work in Concord.
C.V.
Education
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
BA (Classics), Yale University, New Haven, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2023 April, The Tender Art Space, West Concord, MA
Group Exhibitions
2025 Finders Keepers, Springs Projects, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2024
Close Reading, Locust Valley Library, Long Island, NY
How Did We Get Here?, ECOCA at Upstate Art Weekend, ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY
Little Lightning, The Canopy Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2015
CRIT: The Boston Critique Group, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2007
Summer Nudes, Robert Antreasian Gallery, Baltimore, MD
The Next Generation, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD
Press (The Tender Art Space)
2025 Boston Art Review, “Ambitious Local Micro Galleries Are Taking Art to Unexpected Places,”
Jacqueline Houton, July 8, 2025
Cambridge Day, “Charlie Dov Schön’s stuffed-animal Ziz is a vision of grief and strength,”
Claire Ogden, March 9, 2025
2024 Ocean in a Drop (Substack) “In the Hand of an Ancestor,” Cate McQuaid, Nov. 26 2024 - subscribers only
The Concord Bridge, “Paths to the Past: Pictographs Illuminate Indigenous Stories,”
Margaret Carroll‑Bergman, Nov. 23, 2024
Set Design
2009 Holy Ghosts, original opera by Larry Bell, Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA
2005 Mother Courage, Yale Dramat Mainstage, dir. Satya Babha, Yale University, New Haven CT
Residencies
Artist Residency in Motherhood (2017, 2021)
Vermont Studio Center